A Franklin Lakes doctor was sentenced to 18 months in prison Wednesday in a bribery scheme, federal prosecutors said.

Basel Batarseh, 57, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in a test-referral scheme by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said in a statement.

The internal medicine doctor who had a practice in Fair Lawn accepted more than $104,000 in bribes from November 2007 and August 2010, prosecutors said. Batarseh got more than $1.3 million in lab business for Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services.

Batarseh was fined $7,500 and ordered to pay back $104,611, prosecutors said.

The story has been updated to correct the location of where Basel Batarseh's practice was located.